encryption (Re: NT domain authentication)

[Darxus]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:

> In my opinion, VNC has been lacking in 3 ways:
> 
> 1) Encrypting its connections

I have a feeling SSL (Secure Socket Layer) would be good to use use.
There's a free implimentation called SSLeay at
http://www.ssleay.org/ssleay/

"The base release of SSLeay includes support for building on

Unix 
DOS 
Windows (WIN16, WIN32) 
VMS"

I think my best chance at helping at all with this would be attempting to
write a couple perl programs to establish an encrypted pipe from a socket
on a local machine, to a socket on a machine running VNC server, and
connecting through this pipe.  I could probably do it, and it would
probably be secure, but it would be a pretty ugly hack.  Basically, what
you can do w/ ssh, except not requiring ssh, and very portable. 
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